The G2 series shares a common hardware and software foundation providing a robust and consistent set of wireless features across all the of the access points. The series was designed to balance feature functionality and price to allow enterprises the ability to target the right access point for their specific location and role within their network.

Where did the impetus for the G2 series come from?

That’s easy: we listened to our customers. We took in our customer stories about what’s impacting their networks today and what they’re planning for the future, all the while keeping a close eye on industry trends. All of this was factored into our G2 series design and development, and I’m proud to say that our products address each of those megatrends and pain points:

Ensuring the network is ready with the best performance radios in the industry

Video growth in the network

Hardware based quality of service and advanced software architecture that supports unparalleled video scaling within the G2 Access Points, independently verified with Miercom

Video is increasinglyan important part of delivering information within the enterprise, typically for “teaching, training, communicating” to the corporate user base

Either as canned video or increasingly live streaming, with the later for both streaming live and canned video to users and future growth around bi-directional video e.g. video calls & IMs

Cloud based networking

Cloud based networking driving more traffic per user as they access more and more information, applications and participate in designs such as VDI “Thin-Client”

Key expectations also dove tail with wireless scale and performance

Leveraging Moore’s law to invest on new high performance CPU’s to be ahead of the curve as the number of clients increases and the amount of traffic continues to grow with them

Mobility, Mobility, Mobility

Aside from the fact that the term Mobilitymeans something different to every individual on the planet, the real message here from customers was

My wireless network needs to always be available, whether stationary or on the go in the same building or between buildings

I should be able to connect quickly and seamlessly to the network, I don’t want to make allowances for using wireless to conduct my business

Ensuring the G2 Series scales in the number of clients they support, the overall performance of the AP’s and radios to process client traffic quickly and efficiently allowing the AP’s to handle mobility patterns and time of day density patterns that are typical within all enterprise companies

We are keenly aware that our products serve a whole range of customers, so with G2, we strove for a tiered product approach to allow customers to have the option for choosing the most appropriate G2 series Access Point for their network. Our product tiers are based on “Network Location & Role + AP Functionality + Price Point” to provide customers the most flexibility possible to tackle their networking needs.

3600

2600

1600

Wi-Fi standards

802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

802.11 a/b/g/n

802.11 a/b/g/n

Number of Radios

2.4 & 5 GHz

2.4 & 5 GHz

2.4 & 5 GHz

Max Data rate

1.3 Gbps

with 802.11ac Module

450 Mbps

300 Mbps

MIMO radio design and spatial streams

4×4:3 – 802.11n

3×3:3 – 802.11ac

3×4:3

3×3:2

# of Associated devices

200

200

128

# ofClientLink devices

128

128

32

With the complete G2 Series of Access made up of the 3600, 2600, and 1600 Aironet access points, Cisco delivers unmatched functionality with tiered pricing that provides customers with the necessary tools and flexibility to design enterprise wireless networks that will support of their needs today and the business needs of tomorrow.

What’s ahead for Aironet Access Points?

The sky’s the limit and this new access layer continues to evolve:

802.11ac and higher speeds and feeds

Access Point as the primary connection point back into the wired network for more and more network services

Fine grained traffic awareness and intelligent switching

Next generation per user per device context awareness

And of course ever increasing amount of traffic from more and more wireless devices

Out the three models released in the Aironet Indoor G2 series I liked Best in Class 3600 for the speed reasons (1.3 Gbps per radio) that will help in faster data trasfer. Anyways its really good initiative by Cisco as in many Enterprises I have worked with, heavy loads over Wi-Fi networks result in network outages more often during evenings when all the employees want to wrap up their work in a hurry.

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